Classroom Management and Effective Strategies to Motivate Students examines contemporary issues in education with a focus on equity, diversity, and classroom practice. Topics include racial perceptions of students, classroom management and discipline, early childhood education, family engagement, school nutrition, recess, school uniforms, absenteeism, literacy development, teacher expectations, educational inequities, cultural identity, second-language experiences, and strategies for creating inclusive and supportive learning environments.
Chapter 1 Racial Perceptions of Children in School Settings
Chapter 2 The Classroom Management Stories
Chapter 3 No One Ever Told Me Discipline Was Going to Be Like This
Chapter 4 It All Starts with Preschool!
Chapter 5 Are Preschools Fading Out or Are We the Faders? The Real Issues
Chapter 6 So What Has Happened to the Good Kindergarten Programs?
Chapter 7 Home Visits
Chapter 8 Parent Conferences, Outdated or Time for a Change?
Chapter 9 The Loosening of School Lunch Nutrition Standards: Helpful or Hindrance?
Chapter 10 So What Is Going on with Recess Time?
Chapter 11 Do School Uniforms Make a Difference?
Chapter 12 Achievement Gaps: What Role Does Absenteeism Play?
Chapter 13 Invented Spelling Can Improve Reading Skills
Chapter 14 The Effects of Low Teacher Expectations on Students of Color
Chapter 15 It’s Not Just Preschool, But Are Black Children Being Dehumanized?
Chapter 16 Tantrums: Growth and Development for Young Children
Chapter 17 Black Lives Really Do Matter
Chapter 18 Placing Educational and Cultural Values on the Lives of Blacks, Latinos and All Children
Chapter 19 Placing Educational and Cultural Value on Latino and African-American Students Part 2
Chapter 20 The Legacy of My Own Second Language: Gullah
Chapter 21 The Realities about Unequal Education
Chapter 22 Real Teacher Shocking Experiences Part 1
Chapter 23 More Real Shocking Experiences Part 2
Chapter 24 More Real Shocking Experiences
Chapter 25 Hip Hop-Rap That Teaches
Appendix-A Motivation to Share
Appendix-B Anti-Discrimination Position Statement
Gloria
Kirkland-Holmes
Gloria Kirkland-Holmes is Professor Emerita of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Northern Iowa. She joined UNI in 1978 and spent more than four decades preparing future educators while advancing multicultural education and cultural understanding across the university. Growing up in segregated Charleston, South Carolina, she overcame significant barriers to earn a doctorate in teaching and dedicated her career to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusive education.